Sleeve-holder



(No Model.)

C. WELDE.

SLEEVE HOLDER.

Patented July 15, 1884.

TNT/m I 621mm? n. mm mm m I 2 U ITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN WELDE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SLEEVE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,072, dated July 15, 1884. Application filed March 17, 1884. i (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN WELDE, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful device for and method of holding and securing the sleeves of garments in place upon the arms of the wearer during the operation of drawing the sleeves of an outer. garment overthe same, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, which represent the practice of my method and a preferred form of a of operating the same.

' over said inner garment upon the arm of the My invention embraces the application of a detachable device to the inside of the sleeve of an inner. garment, said device being provided with means whereby said device or an attachment thereof may be held by the hand of thewearer of said garment during the op-' eration of drawing the sleeve of an outer garment over the same.

The construction and operation of the device shown in the drawings are as follows:

A wire, B, is coiled, as at B, to form a spring, and the respective ends or legs thereof are continued and crossed, their extremities being bent, as shown at C andD in Figs. 1 and 2, in such manner that said bent ends or heels 0 and D are caused tov come and be held together by stress of the spring B. I

A is a plate or any suitable retaining device, adapted to be'sewed'or otherwise secured to the inner surface of the sleeve of an inner garment, said plate being provided with an eye,

E, or kindred socket or keeper for the heels of the wire B. a The heels 0 and D of the spring-provided wireB are intended to be introduced into said eye E after said heels have been separated by pressure of the wire legs between the fingers, as shown in Fig. 2, the saidheels, as will be readily understood, after the removal-0f said pressure, being retained within the eye or socket E by the expansive force of the spring B.

G in Fig. 4 represents the sleeve of an inner, garment, to the interior of which is attached the plate A, a part of the sleeve being broken away or removed,so as to exhibit the plate. I

H is a cordor ribbon attached conveniently to the spring Bof the wireB, and provided .at its other extremity with a ring, I, adapted to be slipped and held upon a finger of the hand. It is obvious, however, that the ring I may be dispensed with and. that the cord or ribbon H be coiled or wrapped about or grasped by the hand, for the purpose, through the instrumentality of the plate A and connecti-ng-wire B, of holding the sleeve of the inner garment in place during the operation of pulling on an outer garment. v

I do not confine myself to the specific devices shown in the drawings, as it will be obvious that other devices adapted to be detachably connected with the interior. of the sleeve of the garment at one extremity of 'said device and held by or connected to the hand at the other extremity may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention. v

The eye of the plate or socket may be reamed out or made with a taper opening, as shown in Fig. 3, in order to facilitate the in troduction of the heels of the spring-wire.

Having thus. described i my invention, I

- claim- 1. A device for holdingthe sleeve of an ljO tachably connected with a plate or other suitable device secured to .the inner portion of 5 the sleeve of said interior garment, and the other end of which is adapted to be held or attached to the hand of the wearer, as specified.

2. The wire B B, coiled at B, and having its extremities O D crossed and bent, in e01n- In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed bination with the plate A, provided with the my name this 12th day of March, A. D. 1884. eye E, as specified.

'3. The Wire 13 B, eoiled at 13, and having (JHRISTIAN 5 its extremities O D crossed and bent, in com- In presence of bination with the plate A, provided with the V. O. STRAWBRIDGE,

eye E and with the string H, as specified. I J. BONSALL TAYLOR. 

